Pros: Great frame rates, great image quality. I have yet to find a game that's not playable at 1920x1600 with quality turned up.

Cons: Hot Card. In my system it was idling at 75C. Newest ATI drivers allow manual fan control, but when I turned up the fan to lower the temp, it was LOUD.

Overall Review: I replaced the stock cooler w/ 3rd party cooler and I'm getting 45C at idle w/ 3rd party cooler at lowest fan setting. It's quiet and card seems to work better.

Pros: Very nice card, handles everything very well at this point. Fan controll in ccc 8.10 is great.

Cons: 0

Overall Review: Large, heavy, and power hungry but that's to be expected.

Pros: This card is fast, best I have seen for the money. I would not hesitate to buy it again.

Cons: If you are already running a decent card, (i.e. HD3870) do not expect miracles. This is a great card, but I have to admit I was a little disappointed after all the hype.

Overall Review: If you set the fan higher, as you now can with the new drivers, there is absolutely no heat problem at all. The fan is a bit loud, but it takes more air to cool off a hotter card. It would be more expensive to have a high performance factory heatsink and the purpose of this card is to have high quality performance at a decent price. To all the people who are complaining about the heat or the fan, buy an aftermarket heatsink or just deal with it. More power = more heat and there is nothing anybody can do about it, so quit complaning or pay up.

Pros: Great specs. Runs all my games beautifully.

Cons: By default the fan speed is set very low. You should enable custom options in the ATI control center and bring the fan speed up past 30% so that the temperature doesn't sit at 75 degrees plus!

Pros: Downloaded 8.11 from sapphire's website. Installed and it runs beautifully. Left4Dead, Fallout 3, Red Alert 3, everything i've thrown at it, works at max settings on 1650 x 1050. 8x AA 16x AF vsync triple buffered. I have yet to see it drop below 60fps. I have yet to try Crysis and Far Cry 2 but I'm expecting similar results. Ever since 8.10 you could control the fan manually. 30% is quiet and temperature is 51C idle and 67ish under stress. 35% is probably the best for most, and 40% for those who would trade noise for performance. Yes, the card is huge, but it fits just fine in my micro atx. My hard drive did not get in the way either, as i just moved it down a slot. I do not see why so many people have problems getting this to fit in their cases.

Cons: Not much difference between 512mb and 1gb. The temperature does give room for worry but it is most likely not an issue for most. I have almost no air flow or proper cooling.

Overall Review: There aren't any games at the moment that can really take advantage of 1gb. The benchmarks for 512mb and 1gb are almost identical. If you're wanting to save money, and still have top of the line stuff, get the 512mb 4870 which is about 230$ now.

Pros: I have been getting very good perfromance from this card. This is my first ATI card after a long string of NVidia cards and I have been very happy with it and its drivers. Has been rock solid in 64 bit Vista.

Cons: This has been said a lot before, but this card runs hot without some tweaking. It was running about 72c at idle which is way too hot. This is easily fixed using Riva tuner (I have it running in the backround and it will adjust the fan based on the temperature) but you shouldn't have to do stuff like that just to get it to run like it should.

Overall Review: I still like this card and would recommend it even with the above con.

Pros: Far more powerful than the ol' 8600 I was using. AMAZING hardware AA performance, especially this 1GB version. Crysis looks like a movie now. Really a pleasure to game with.

Cons: Drivers are not terribly impressive. Could be that, or my CPU/chipset (E6600 and nforce 570i respectively), but hasn't upped my FRAMERATE in Crysis. I CAN play it with way higher settings, though. Linux drivers in particular are not fun to work with.

Overall Review: Temp isn't too much of a problem once you use driver 8.10. 30% fanspeed keeps it reasonably cool at idle, and can be pushed up to 40% under full load w/o overclocking. This is still fairly quiet.

Pros: Runs my 24" monitor native at 1920x1200 max on all games in my system. HL2 @ 256 FPS on max through the stress test. Turn up your AA and watch the pretty colors. The card will not blink. There is really not much out there that this card cannot handle easily.

Cons: It does run hot at idle, but the problem is now solved courtesy of the catalyst control center 8.10 drivers and the new manual fan setting (they are just tweaking the XML file). There is very little to gripe about with this card other than the 30 seconds it takes to set your fan speed. See other:

Overall Review: Courtesy of CCC 8.10, you can manually set the fan speed and lock it in. Overheating issues (if they were even issues @60 deg C stock) are gone. At 35% fan speed you will run the card at 40 deg C even under heavy load and the fan is barely audible. The new CCC removes any issues in this department. If ATI is reading this, 8.11 should have the ability to modify the AUTO (temp vs. fan speed) setting rather than a flat % rate for all loads. Although 35% will keep it cool under heavy load for the most part. I have not overclocked yet (no need). System = Phenom 9950 125w 4 gb DDR2 1066 DFI Lanparty DK 790FX SB750